The relationship of health-care managers' spirituality to their self-perceived leadership practices.
This exploratory survey examines the relationship between selected dimensions of spirituality and self-perceived effective leadership practices of health-care managers. Kouzes and Posner's Leadership Practices Inventory and Beazley's Spiritual Assessment Scale were administered to a sample of health-care managers. Significant statistical relationships were found between and among the dimensions of both subscales. Analysis of variance revealed a statistically significant difference in three effective leadership practices by 'more spiritual than non-spiritual' managers. The confirmatory factor analysis of our theory-based model revealed a moderately positive correlation between spirituality and leadership (r = 0.50). The paper concludes with a conceptual theory postulating a rationale for the relationship between spirituality and effective leadership.
Strack
James Gary
JG
Boca Raton Community Hospital, 800 Meadows Road, Boca Raton, FL 33486, USA.
Fottler
Myron D
MD
Kilpatrick
Ann Osbourne
AO
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D006270:Health Facility Administrators / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D029181:Spirituality; D055815:Young Adult